I have a great deal of admiration for Hadleigh as a player and he's been an asset to the Scarlets undoubtebly. However i don't agree with him playing for Wales. If I went to Australia tomorrow for three years i wouldn't suddenly become Australian. I understand that it's an international rule that makes it possible. That doesn't mean in my eyes we have to follow like sheep though. Gatland doesn't care as he's a kiwi Parkes will be depriving a home grown Welshman an opportunity to play for his country. He had a great game yesterday of course and I can see why he's selected but I don't agree with it .Anyway thats my view.

I have a great deal of admiration for Hadleigh as a player and he's been an asset to the Scarlets undoubtebly. However i don't agree with him playing for Wales. If I went to Australia tomorrow for three years i wouldn't suddenly become Australian. I understand that it's an international rule that makes it possible. That doesn't mean in my eyes we have to follow like sheep though. Gatland doesn't care as he's a kiwi Parkes will be depriving a home grown Welshman an opportunity to play for his country. He had a great game yesterday of course and I can see why he's selected but I don't agree with it .Anyway thats my view.

Now then - for reasons I won't go into, I was born in England, but I'm as Welsh as they come - yn wir, Cymraeg yw fy mamiaith - and lived here for all my childhood and most of my adulthood.

It seems that according to you, I am not 'Welsh' enough to represent Wales.

I do think that qualification criteria are a bit of a minefield, and am happy enough to see the rules tightened - but not to the point of using country of birth as the sole criterion. And in Hadleigh's case, I'm very pleased for him.

I have a great deal of admiration for Hadleigh as a player and he's been an asset to the Scarlets undoubtebly. However i don't agree with him playing for Wales. If I went to Australia tomorrow for three years i wouldn't suddenly become Australian. I understand that it's an international rule that makes it possible. That doesn't mean in my eyes we have to follow like sheep though. Gatland doesn't care as he's a kiwi Parkes will be depriving a home grown Welshman an opportunity to play for his country. He had a great game yesterday of course and I can see why he's selected but I don't agree with it .Anyway thats my view.

The real question is why isn't there a homegrown Welshman good enough to be selected over a 30 year-old Kiwi? Parkes was selected because he's the best option.I'm fully supportive of him playing for Wales, he's more than earnt it.He'll give as much to the jersey as any "Welshman" would.

I still wake up late at night and think of what might have been when tim stimpson hit that jammy penalty1

I have a great deal of admiration for Hadleigh as a player and he's been an asset to the Scarlets undoubtebly. However i don't agree with him playing for Wales. If I went to Australia tomorrow for three years i wouldn't suddenly become Australian. I understand that it's an international rule that makes it possible. That doesn't mean in my eyes we have to follow like sheep though. Gatland doesn't care as he's a kiwi Parkes will be depriving a home grown Welshman an opportunity to play for his country. He had a great game yesterday of course and I can see why he's selected but I don't agree with it .Anyway thats my view.

The real question is why isn't there a homegrown Welshman good enough to be selected over a 30 year-old Kiwi? Parkes was selected because he's the best option.I'm fully supportive of him playing for Wales, he's more than earnt it.He'll give as much to the jersey as any "Welshman" would.

Just think how our young players watching him play and train will learn look at how good our young back row players have come on under the influence of JB.Think the opportunity now and the players he will have around him will be the making of Stef Hughes if he avoids injury. He certainly had good game yesterday and will be learning off two of best centres to wear shirt.

Having top quality NWQ players has a massive impact on the squad as a whole.Imagine how much our youngsters are learning from the likes of Kruger, Bulbring, Barclay, Parkes and McNicholl.In the past they had Iongi, Ajuwa, Vallejos, Timani and Pungea

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